Verseday Thursday: Whitman

I've posted this poem before, but it's been a while, and I like it. So here it is again.

TO THE STATES - Walt Whitman

To the States or any one of them, or any city of the States,

Resist much, obey little,

Once unquestioning obedience, once fully enslaved,
Once fully enslaved, no nation, state, city of this earth,
ever afterward resumes its liberty.